UK Census Online"Bringing YOUR ancestors to YOU, free of charge!"Have YOU ever thought of the benefit of
the U.K. Census data being centrally
available on ONE database, and being
able to trace your ancestors
from 1841 to 1891?
This project aims to provide a "free-to-view" online searchable database of
the 19th century UK census returns.

FreeCEN is part of

Free UK Genealogy CIO,
an initiative aimed at helping make high quality primary (or near-primary)
records of relevance to UK genealogy conveniently and freely available
online, in a coherent, easy to access and search, information retrieval
system.Other projects associated with the
FreeUKGEN initiative areFreeBMDandFreeREG.

You are invited to come and try FreeCEN2. We're all set up and waiting for your feedback.

Volunteers

Many volunteers world-wide are working on the transcription.

The number of volunteers has grown since its inception in 1999.
We now have volunteers from all over the world helping us to get more Census
Records On-Line for you to search FOC and it continues to grow.

We are constantly looking for new volunteers. We need help with Transcribing and Checking.
We transcribe and check from from CD's/DVD's loaned to you.
To volunteer to help please contact the Coordinator of a County that you are interested in
helping with.
Please click on the following link which will take you to the

FreeCEN are working on the 1841. 1851, 1861, 1871 and 1891 census.
We are continually adding new transcriptions. For further details of how we are progressing please look at the following statistics page on

If you see errors while using this web site, or while submitting entries
to the database, please report them tobowbren@ntlworld.com,
saying what
you were doing (i.e. submitting, searching), the URL and the exact time (and time zone) that this happened. Thank you.